Reply To: CD/AD type shock absorbers.

[frankr]

I don’t know this for a fact, but I suspect that the spring being under stress for some 60 years is resulting metal fatigue and breakage.  We sure didn’t see so many broken springs back in “The Day”.

Can’t say that I’ve ever tried to re-install a spring.  But I’ve had lousy luck in trying to remove both pieces of a broken one.  A couple of times where I could get the broken one out, I’ve fabricated a solid “spring” or sleeve to an interference fit and pressed it in.  That locks it up, but of course no longer has the slip function.